The Witherly Heights Yearender: Influential News Story

The impeachment process.

– Avani Sethi 

The NCAA players might actually start getting paid. –

-Luca Barbacioru

The announcement of the impeachment hearings. 

-Siddarth Chavan 

The release of the Mueller Report. 

-Parsa Basseri 

Probably the news story that revealed there was going to be an impeachment inquiry.

-Jayden Cammarata

Impeachment inquiry 

-Ayush Hindocha 

Trump Ukraine policy actions and impeachment hearings.

-Raghu Narayan

The Hong Kong protests. 

-Isa Eugenio 

Trump impeachment scandals. 

-Khushi Shah 

While I am not completely aware of the details, Trump’s Ukraine scandal is the most influential news story of 2019. The way he explicitly abused presidential power to try and gain information about a political opponent is eerily reminiscent of Watergate; except he will not resign. 

-Ram Charan

The most influential news story of 2019 was the fire in the Amazon Rainforest because it opened conversations about deforestation and global warming. 

-Varnika Dhandapani 

The Amazon Fire and Dayton Shooting. 

-Ayesha Ashraf 

Oh jeez, there were so many. I feel like the top five are: Trump/Ukraine business and the impeachment probe, Epstein, the Amazon fires, the many mass shootings that occurred, and everything happening with the 2020 Democratic field. I also think there was a lot of focus on the climate crisis this year.

-Kimia Faroughi